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Amos 5
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house
of Israel. |
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| 5:2
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken
upon her land; there is none to raise her up. |
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall
leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten,
to the house of Israel. |
(5:3-4)
God tells the Israelites to seek him or he'll kill 90% of them.
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| 5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall
live: |
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But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for
Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. |
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| 5:6
Seek the LORD, and ye shall live;
lest he break out like fire in the house
of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. |
Seek God or he'll burn you to death.
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| 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the
earth, |
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| 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of
death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for
the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The
LORD is his name: |
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| 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled
shall come against the fortress. |
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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh
uprightly. |
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from
him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not
dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink
wine of them. |
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| 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict
the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from
their right. |
"They afflict the just."
Has the ever been a just person?
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| 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil
time. |
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Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of
hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. |
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| 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it
may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of
Joseph. |
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| 5:16
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall
be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and
they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of
lamentation to wailing. |
(5:16-17)
When there is wailing and mourning, you'll know God's been there.
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5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith
the LORD.
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Woe unto you that
desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD
is darkness, and not light. |
(5:18-20)
"Woe unto you that
desire the day of the LORD!"
Many Christians look forward to the "day of the Lord,"
but according to these verses, they shouldn't.
| 5:19
As if a man did flee
from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand
on the wall, and a serpent bit him. |
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Shall not the day of
the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies. |
(5:21-27)
"I hate, I despise your feast days."
God rejects the Israelites prayers, songs, and sacrifices because they
worshipped other gods and didn't offer enough sacrifices during the Exodus (many
centuries ago). To punish them he'll make them all slaves.
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Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not
accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
| | 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the
melody of thy viols. |
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. |
| | 5:25
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty
years, O house of Israel? |
| | 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the
star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. |
| | 5:27
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the
LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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